Jun 26, 2026 · 25 min · 10 segments
Volunteers at a Hoback ranch pull up the remnants from decades of cattle ranching. This July 4th marks the 45th anniversary of an event that has helped spur tourism and a sense of wonder west of the…
Wyoming is home to the country's first designated wildlife migration corridor and Teton County is the summer stopover for many nomadic ungulates like pronghorn, elk, and mule deer.
But along the way, they must dodge miles of sharp, often lethal, barbed wire fences.
KHOL's Jenna McMurtry reports from a ranch where volunteers are pulling up the remnants from decades of cattle ranching.
Around a dozen mostly retired volunteers dedicate their Saturday to wrestling rusty nails out of old fence posts and rolling up barbed wire.
I'm going to twist and pop it up.
A steady trickle of spring rain at Broken Arrow Ranch won't slow down the day's agenda.
Now a summer camp, the property borders the Bridger-Teton National Forest near Teton County's southern border.
We're heading out in a couple of minutes, so make sure you got all your stuff.
Cody Pitts of the Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation leads the crew for the next six hours.
He layers up in a raincoat for the weather, glasses and Kevlar gloves for protection.
So we don't need any bear spray? No, bear spray's in here.
Across Wyoming, thousands of miles of stacked barbed wire that used to contain livestock still slice through public and private land.
Fences can be a challenge for wildlife to move through them.
Barbed wire fences, especially that aren't being maintained and are loose, are more likely to entrap wildlife, have them get tangled up in it.
A 2005 study shows that for every two and a half miles of fence, one ungulate dies each year.
That's a stat Pitts hopes to improve as he demonstrates on wire that has kept the ranch's horses on private property.
So this is parallel and pop it up.
Right there.
Can you get one or two more hands here?
As Jacksonite John Fries yanks wire out of the posts, Doug Miller follows behind.
And then we'll go right in through there.
rolling the fence as they walk down an unmaintained trail through thick foliage.
That's a tight looking roll there, fellas.
Wyoming is home to the country's first designated wildlife migration corridor and Teton County is the summer stopover for many nomadic ungulates like pronghorn, elk, and mule deer.
But along the way, they must dodge miles of sharp, often lethal, barbed wire fences.
KHOL's Jenna McMurtry reports from a ranch where volunteers are pulling up the remnants from decades of cattle ranching.
Around a dozen mostly retired volunteers dedicate their Saturday to wrestling rusty nails out of old fence posts and rolling up barbed wire.
I'm going to twist and pop it up.
A steady trickle of spring rain at Broken Arrow Ranch won't slow down the day's agenda.
Now a summer camp, the property borders the Bridger-Teton National Forest near Teton County's southern border.
We're heading out in a couple of minutes, so make sure you got all your stuff.
Cody Pitts of the Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation leads the crew for the next six hours.
He layers up in a raincoat for the weather, glasses and Kevlar gloves for protection.
So we don't need any bear spray? No, bear spray's in here.
Across Wyoming, thousands of miles of stacked barbed wire that used to contain livestock still slice through public and private land.
Fences can be a challenge for wildlife to move through them.
Barbed wire fences, especially that aren't being maintained and are loose, are more likely to entrap wildlife, have them get tangled up in it.
A 2005 study shows that for every two and a half miles of fence, one ungulate dies each year.
That's a stat Pitts hopes to improve as he demonstrates on wire that has kept the ranch's horses on private property.
So this is parallel and pop it up.
Right there.
Can you get one or two more hands here?
As Jacksonite John Fries yanks wire out of the posts, Doug Miller follows behind.
And then we'll go right in through there.
rolling the fence as they walk down an unmaintained trail through thick foliage.
That's a tight looking roll there, fellas.
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